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Africa-Press – Namibia. <\/strong><\/span>One of the researchers behind the new study has also expressed her desire to investigate how “social knowledge, such as prejudice or stereotypes and individual beliefs,” can affect short-term memory.<\/p>\n

While the incorrect recollection of events that happened long ago is hardly uncommon, it appears that even recent memories may contain errors, a new study published in PLOS One has suggested.<\/p>\n

The study, authored by researchers from the Netherlands and Canada, postulates that people may misremember things that happened as early as a few seconds ago, apparently due to these people\u2019s expectations.<\/p>\n

During the course of their study, the researchers conducted a series of experiments that involved people trying to recall the letters they were just shown, with a few caveats: for example, sometimes the letters were mirrored and the participants had to correctly remember the way a particular letter was oriented.<\/p>\n

The team noticed that while the participants of the experiment usually had little problem remembering a particular letter, the recollection rates for the mirrored letters turned out to be worse, with the number of mistakes increasing proportionally to the time between seeing said letter and being told to recall it.<\/p>\n

These false recollections were apparently due to the way preconceptions shape people\u2019s memories, with Otten noting that \u201cit is only when memory becomes less reliable through the passage of a tiny bit of time, or the addition of extra visual information, that internal expectations about the world start playing a role.\u201d<\/p>\n

The researcher also mentioned that she is interested in \u201cfinding a way to test the effects of social knowledge, such as prejudice or stereotypes and individual beliefs, on short-term memory.\u201d<\/p>\n

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